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{ - 10 THE COLD FACTS OF HISTORY Revelations of the Rebellion Compiled by the War Office, 80TH SIDES OF THE BLOODY RECORD Astonlshing Figures Produced and Com- parisons Mado showing the Naumber of Kited nnd Wounded in the Mighty Strugglo for Nationality, Though but little has been printed concerning the work of the war records office of the War department, yet this s been a tremendous task. Forty- nine volumes, of nearly 1,000 pages each, are completed, and furnish the most accurato histc ever published of a nation’s internicine war, The work has been impartially done. Besides the five union officers employed, two confederate geoeral officers have always been en- gaged in editing the war archives per- taining to the dead confederacy. Those now employed are Licutenant General Alexander P. Stewart of Mississippi, a graduate of West Point and corps com- mander in the Army of the Tennessee, for that army, and Major General L. L. Lomax of Virginia, one of J. E. B. Stuart's best cavalry ofticers, for the Army of Nortkarn Virginia, The most interesting feature of the work is not yet in print, but in course of preparation, writes a corre- spondent of the New York Times. It is an exhaustive compilation from official records of the casualties on both sides in the wa The labor has tgken many years. The rvesult will be the most Valuable volume in the history of the war that can eve be published. Here are facts, not ovin- ions. The arguments here mako them- sclves unanswerable, unless these statis- tics are shown to be wrong and other and different statistics shown to be right. It will be made plain beyond all room of controversy, in this voluine, that much of the havdest fighting of the war was between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, and the figures in this volume will show that the infantry regiments from the eastern states did the hardest fighting in the union army. They also prove that the confederacy succumbed by the exhaus- tion of Lee's army, and are an emphatic comment upon the idleness of any mili- tary theory that a different conduct of campaign or other tacties than those actually adopted would have ended the war before the forces of the confederacy were destroyed. They demonstrate, too, that, like other civil wars which have becn prolonged far beyond the point where one nation would have acknowledged itself beaten by another, the war for the union had to be fought out to the end. Astonishing Revelatio Many of the revelations in this im- portant volume will astonish the reader. The tables of deaths and wounds that are given measure the actual fighting as nothing eise can. They carry cony tion toward a reversal of any judgment founded mevely upon gencral claims, One thing clearly shown 1s the over- shadowing importaunce of the battles of = Gettyshurg and Chickamangra, the great- est battles the confederate and union arm cast or west, ever fought. The losses In these engagements prove how much fiercer was the fighting in these battles thar it was before or ever was again between the two armies engaged during the war. On the other hand, other battles which have made military reputations sink into comparative insig- nificance. Meade gains and Sheridan, for instance, loses by the bringing to- gether of these statistics. The heroic valor of the North Carolina troops ex- ite tho highest admiration, and Penn- wvlvania, which lost more in killed and wounded, in proportion to the number of its troops, than any northern state, can well send greeting to North Caro- lina, whose soldiers at Gettysburg did hardest fighting on the other side, the happy reunion of the present years. {n the union armies there were, in all, 2,800 regiments, not incinding the three months’ men. The union infantry giment which suffered the greatest loss in battle during the war was the Fifth New Hampshire, which in tour years of service lost 205 men killed or mortally wounded in action, including ighteen ofticers. The Kighty-third Peunsylvania infantry comes next. It lost 282 officers and men. There were only forty-five infantry regiments which had, during the war, over 200 men killed or mortally wounded inaction. Of these regiments Pennsyl- vania furnished eloven, a greater num- bor thun any other stute. Now York, Massachusetts and Michigan furnished gix each, and little Vermont closely fol- lowed witi four. The Pennsylvania regiments on this honor list were the One-bundred-and-fifth, ) t, Eleventh, Forty-fifth, One- hundreth, One-hundred-and -eighth, Light st, Fifty-fifth, One-hundred- and-forty-fifth and Fifty-third. In the killed and wounded of the union lightartillery regiments, Cooper's of the First Pennsylvania artil- ry heads the list, with a loss of twenty- one killed and mortally wounded in ac- i Rickett's Pennsylvania battery i enth, with aloss of eighteen, and low's Massachusetts is ninth, with ss of *fifteen. The regiment which had the most killed and wounded 1n ac- tion during the entire war, in propor- tion to its enrollment, was the Second Wisconsin, with a porcentago loss of 10.4 per cent. Of the twenty-two regi- ments whose loss was above 15 per cent, Pennsylvania furnishes the highest aumber, six; Wisconsin comes next,with four, and New Y sachusctts give two each. Of the 200 regiments in which the loss in killed and died of wounds exceeded 10 per cent of the total enrollment, Penn- sylvania leads all the states in numbers, Huving furnished thirty teen und Massachusetts sixtoen. I'he Union infuntry regiment, with the highest percentage of killed, wounded and missing in any one action, was the First Minnesota, which at Gettysburg lost 215 men on July 2 out of. 262 en- i ged. The One-hundred-and-forty-first *onnsylvania is second, having lost at Gettysburg 149 men out of 198 engaged, or 7.7 por cent. This volume will give a table showing sixty-two union rogi- ments which lost in action from to o0 per cent, The Light Brigade at Bula- klava lost 36.7 por cent. The heaviest loss of any German regiment in the Franco-Prussian war was 49.4 per cent. vy Loss Among Oficers. The private was safer than the officer. At Gottysburg the officers lost 27 per vent in killed and wounded, while the enlisted men lost 21 per cent At Gettysburg the percentago of loss among the ofticers was one-half greater than in the Wilderness. The Sixt st Penn- sylvania lost more officers killed than any infantry regiment in the union army nineteen, including three colonels, Phe Eighty-first Pennsylvania and the One-hundred-aund-forty-fifth — Pennsyl- vania each lost eighteen officers, The Sixty-second Pennsylvania aund the sixty-third Pennsylvania each lost sevonteen officers. At Waterloo the French had 80,000 men and 252 guns, the ailies 72,000 men and 186 guns. At Gettysburg Meade had 82,000 men and 300 guns, and Lee 70,000 men and 250 guns, Wellington, at Wataerloo, lost 23,185; Meade, at Gettys- burg, 26,003; Napoleon, 26,300 men, and Lee 20,448, At Gravelotte the rmans lost 20,577 out of 146,000 troops engaged. At Borodino, the bloodiest battle since the introduction of gunpowder, the Rus- sians lost 30,000 and the French over 20,000, but the percentage of loss was less than at Gettysburg, Chickamauga or Waterloo. In the civil war the union armies lost 385,245 in killed, mortally wounded and ely wounded. The total enroliment of the union armies, officers and men, not including three and six months men, was 2,804,272; 110,070 of these killed and the deaths from disease, wounds and other causes were 350,528 more. The confederate army and navy' total enrollment, including all classes and the transcriptions, was about 600, | 000 men, out of a population of 5,000,000 y-cight per cent of the union soldiers at Andersonville died: 25 per cent of the confederates confined at El- mira, N. Y., died; 2,088 of the latte were buried in o field which a year or two afterward was plowed over and planted in wheat, Forty-eight per cent of the union soldiers were farmers, 24 per cent mechanics, 16 per cent labor- ers, b per cent were in commercial pur- suits, 3 per cent were professional men. Tho Pennsylvania reserves was the only division'in the union armies com- posed entirely of troops from one state, Hancock's old division of the Second corps lost more killed and wounded than any division in the union armies. Its total losses were 18,844, Close to it was Gibbon's division, in which was the Philadelphia brigade. This division at Gettysburg lost 1,642 out of 3,773 en- gaged, 43.5 per cent. The four regi- ments in the Philadelphia brigade lost in killed and those dying of wounds during the war, 636 off and men. The compilers of these very remark- able figures give the essential statistics of 300 fighting regiments—a list which includes overy regiment in_ the union armies which lost over 120 in killed or died of wounds during the entire war, and a few regiments whose percentage of killed entitles them to this particular analysis. Of these 300 fighting regi- ments Pennsylvania furnished 53. Among them were of the Pennsylvania erves the ifth, Bighth, Ninth nth, enth and Thirtecnth (Bucktails); the Seventh and Eleventh cavalry, although the killed and wounded of the Pennsylvania cavalry exceeded the losses of any other state cavalry: the Twenty-eighth infantry (Colonel Tyn- dale), the PFilty-first infantry (Colonel Hartranft), the Fifty-third (Colonel Brooke), the Sixty-first (Colonel Orr), the Sixty-ninth (Colonel Owen), the Seventy-first (Colonel Wistar), Baxter's Zouay third (Colonel Me- Carter), the oventh (Colorel Pennypacker), the “Corn Exchange the One-hundred-and-nineteenth (Col- onel Gideon Clark), the One-hundred- and-twenty-first (Colonel Biddle), the One-hundred-and-forty-eighth (Color Beaver), the One-hundred-and-forty ninth (Colonel Roy Stone) and other su- perb Pennsylvania regiments. The union regiment which suffered the greatest losses at Gettysburg for its enrollment” was the Twenty-fourth Michigan, whose total losses in two days were 363, The Pennsylvania regiments whose losses were the greatestin that battle were also in the First corps, vig: The One-hundred-and-fifty-first and One-hundred-and-forty-ninth whose total losses were 335 and 336, respec- tively. At Spottsylvania the union regiment suffering the greatest loss was the One-hundred-and-fort; hth Penn- sylvania, Colonel (afterward governor) with 301 killed, wounded and s At Poriver it led the list again with a loss of 200. The percentage of killed of Penn- sylvania soldiers quota of any was greater than in the other state. The total »s of Pennsylvania cavalry in action eded the cavalry losses of any other te. Pennsylvania troops were the first to arrive in Washington for its de- fense, five companies reaching the city p. m., April 18, 1861. On the next ¢ the Twenty h Pennsylvania and Sixth Massachusetts had their famous fight in timore, the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania losing one man killed and several wounded. The Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania (Colonel Hoffmann) opened the battle of Gettysburg. “ Other Interosting Facts. Delaware furnished more men and money in proportion to its military pop- ulation than any other state. The union deserters during the war numbered 201, 397, Of the Kansas troops 11 per cent deserted. There died of disease, of the Pennsylvania troops, 5.5 per cent; of Kentucky troops, 14.6 per cent; of 111i- nois troops, 10 per cent. The Middle states troops seem to have been far the sturdiest. Aside from the great importance of the strategic issues of Meade's vietory at C ysburg, and the fact that both armies there were at their best in point of discipline, the tables of the losses in each battle of the war show that Gettys- bucg stood ahead in that respect of all other battles of the war fought by the Army of the Potomac and that of North- ern Virginia. The cost to the union side of Meade's victory at Gettysburg an aggregate loss of 25,000. At the Wilderness, Grant had about 30,000 more men, exclusive of the Army of the James, fell 6,000 below Meade’s at Gettysburg. The union losses at Cold Harbor were still lower—12,7 At Spottsylvania, Grant lost 18,309 men in thirty hours, In the following bawtles, among others, the confederates remained in un- disturbed possession of the fiela, the union armies leaving their uunburied dead and many wounded in the hands of the confederates: Leesburg, or Ball's Bluff, Cedar Mountain, Chantilly, Grove- ton, first and second battles of Bull's Run, Seven Days' (Virginia), Chicka- mauga, Wilderness (Virginia), Spott- sylvania, Drewry's Bluff (Virginia), Ream’s Station (Virginia), Hatcher's Run (Virginia), and Stone Rive The union losses at certain battles which have served to make great military reputations were insignificant when com- pared with Gettysburg, Chickamauga wnd Stone River, ~ For instance, the ag- gregate losses at Opequan (Virginia) were 5,018: Fisher's Hill (Virginia), 528; Cedar Creek (Virginia), 5,665; Franklin (Tennessee), i; Five KForks (Vir- ginia), 884; Bailor's Creek, 1,180; Nush- (Tennessee), 3,00 Sheridan’s cavalry, on May 25-30, 1,864: Resaca, 3,000, Tho total losses in the Atlanta cam- paign, from May until December, were only 8,000 more than in the single battle of Chickamauga. The losses in the dif- forent assaults at Vicksburg were about 5,000, According to the returns of the confederates, their heaviest losses were at the Seven Days' battles, when their aggregate loss was 20,614, The returns show a loss, killed, wounded and miss- ing, o 448 at Gettysburg, This is the book n% revelations as to both sides of the civil war. On the con- federate side North Carolina lost more soldiers killed than any other southern state. Tho following “was the loss in killed and mortally wounded of several of tho southern states: North Carolina, 14,522; Virginia, 5,382; South Carolina, 0,187; Georgla, 6,008; Mississippi, 5,807, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1894--SIXTEEN PAG Louisiana, 9,714, North Caroling heads the list in the number that died of wounds, and 20,602 of her sons died of disease, and 06,047 Virginians. North Carolina's military population in 1861 was 115,300, but she furnished 125,000 men to the confederato causo. The per- centage of lost and killed and wounded was greater in the confederate armies than in the union armies, At ( burg the Twent yrth Car of Pettigrew's brigade, went into action with over 800 men and lost 588 in killed and wounded and 120 missing, most of whom were also killed or wounded. Most of this loss occurred on the morning of July 1, when this iment fought the One Hundred and Fifty-first Pennsyl- vania and Cooper's batte This Penn- sylvania regiment lost in killed, wounded and missing at Gettysburg. The Twenty-sixth North Carolina had only 216 men left for duty when it went into Longstreet's assault on the third day, and on the following day but 80 men were left. On the first day Cap- tain Tuttle's company went into_action with 3 officers and” 84 men. All the officers and 83 of the men were killed or wounded. On the same day company C of the Eleventh North Carolina lost two officers and 34 out of 38 men, killed or wounded. Captain Bird of this com- pany and the four remaining men then went into what is popularly called Pickett's charge. The flag bearer was shot, and Captain Bird brought out the flag himself. This was the severest regimental loss during the war. The percentage of regimental, brigade and division losses of the confederates was ible. This work teaches the importance of prompt regimental reports, and the United States Military academy should now take steps to prevent carelessness in this respect in the next war on the part of regimental commanders. A regimental count should be made before ing into action and the casualty list properly classi A remarkable paper in the current number of The Californ rated Magazine is a lotter of the ex-empress of Mexico, Curlotta, to the duchess of A A readable contri- bution is Arthur I The Land of the ) ris. New George Hamlin y and's article in the west needs no X that the demand in the main from writers whose work rule is not up to the standard. Clara Spalding Brown gives an interesting de- btion of a “California Peanut_ Ranch” and General N, P, Chipman scores President Cleveland, claiming that he has exceeded chts. The Californian, San Francisco. The Art Amateur opens the new year with a wealth of information and display 1n re- markable contrast with tho stinginess of the month. Itis a pleasure and inspiration to read such articles as “The Painti Snow.” “Designing After Nature,” I dore Dick and His Work," “Tape: ing' and many others. In his ote Book the editor (Mr. Marks) discusses the nation ality of an artist who is born in one countr. and partially educated (artistically) in an other, e caustically comments on thenum- ber of paintings fulsely attributed to great masters, the imitations bemg usually made by clever handlers of the brush Moutague ion Square, New York. he Balance of International Trade" 1s discussed by Daniel Strango in the January number of the American Journal of Politics. The writer exposes the fact that some things are “not considered” in the figures ordinarily ing balance of trade calculations, and ailing to locate the things “not considered” jumvs at erroneous conclusions. *Tariff Reform Blunders™ exposes some gross flaws in President Clevelund’s recent message, made also in the utterances of other tariff reform authorities. S. B, Gordon presents “A New System of Paper Money” for consid- eration. The price of the Journal is reduced to ¥ a year. A.J. Palm, 114 Nassau street, New York. The current issue of the Social Economist prints a masterly review of the effects that may be expected from “The New Tariff Bill,” written by President Gunton of the School of Social Economics. This writer declures the bill “a_complate failure,” that without any principla does not decrease taxation,will not secure honesty in the collec- tion of tixes,will not promote the inaustrial developiment of the country. The free raw material is shown to be dolusive and other es ara exposed. Other Lopics sting in the Lditorial C: ocial Economics, Union Square, Among the subjects discussed n the Janu- ary Forum “The Teaching of Recent Econo- mic Experiences,” by David A Wel tributes pre: ard times to “popular igno- rance of economic law," claiming that *this generation is singularly ignorant of some of the fundamental laws of economics,” and by inferenco tho writer is a God Almighty clothed with sole authority to determine out of the reigning economic chaos what are its true law. mental egoism of theorists and pretensions to knowledge of laws ina study still too inharmonious to be classed a science would far better define the cause of recent troubles. ““Phe New Sectionalism—A Westorn Warning to the East,” isa notewor- thy paper that will attract much attention. Price reduced to 25 cents. The Forum Pub- lishing company, Union Square, New York. A new serial, “Trilby,” by George du Maurier, is tho leading aviraction in Ja ary Hurper's. Thereare two othe 1 the number which have a serial cl although complete in themsclves. One is “A Midsummer Night,” in Brander Mat- thews' “Vignettes of Manhattan,” and the other is the second of William McLennan's tales of the French Revolution, “As Told to His Grace.” Owen Wister contribuces a striking story of western ranch life in which the prin character is a high-strung horse. “Captain Napoleon Bonapavte at Toulon" commemorates the centennialof the a's first appearance in an important engagement. 1t is written by Gor- main Bapst and illustrated from a bitherto unpublished drawing, Junius Henri Browne aiscusses *The Bread-and-Butter Question,” and the departments are filled with the usual varicty of comment, light verso and humorous anecdote, Hurper & Brothers, New York. ew Year numberof The Engincer- azine, covering 588 pages, is devoted rospect of the World's fair, embrac- al papers by notable writers and a y large collection of pictures of the faiv he architectural, mechanic: mining and _transportation exposition are capably treatod by such writers ns Heory Van Brunt, Robert' H ‘Thurston, Elihu Thomson, Rossiter W. Ray- mond, Colonel Henry G. Prout, and others of liko prominence, while Andrew Carnegio discusses the value of the World's fair to the American people, and General Alfred T Goshorn compares it with the Centennial exhibition of 1876, The illustrations artistic- cally portray an immense number of im- joriant mechanical and other exhibits in the { to which this magazine is devoted. The great array of special matter here out- lined does not provent tho appearance in their usual comploteness and variety of the editorial department, each artiole by knowledged expert in his particul The Engineering Magazine Company, building, New York. Under’ the caption, “How to Money Famine,” Commissioner ing in the January North American Review, demonstrates very clearly his utter lack of acumen and unfitness to treat abstruse prob- lems. Atthe outset hecompares thecur- rency problem with thatof perpetual mo- tion, confusing & problem self-contradicted in its statement with one not_yet answered, but involving no_self-contradiction, much as economists fumble and stumble in treating it. All through thereis an airof concoit and self-superiority unwarranted by the ad- mitted failures of his authorities to achieve harmouy. *The Hawaiian Situation." by F. . Coudort, is a very teling indictment of Minister Stevens. *Dinners and Diners" is the subject of intoresting discourse by Lady Jeune. “Tarlff and Business" is a discussion of the *deficiences” in the Wilson bill by Thomas B. Reed. Gdvernor Waiteof Colorado, in an articlo, “Ave the Silver States Ruiaed?” explodes the erroneous idea by reviowing the vast resourcos in develop- went. The North American Keview, 8 East Fourteenth street, New York D Sweet breath, sweoot slomach s weet tem- per! Then use DeWitk'sLittle Hurly Risers cels, writ THE VALUE OF VOCAL NOTES Divine Melody an-yfiw the Gold Mines of the E:\l:th. FABULOUS SALARI;S._:* FAMOUS SINGERS $100 n g Lavish Sums Pald &' Century Ago Night and 8500 for Two Prices Rising with Passing Years. The philosopher's stone—that dream of theold alchemists—takes many forms nowadays, but none more beautiful than that of the voice of the great singer— a truly potent spell to open “he gold mines of the eavth! The amounts that have been paid to the famous sopranos, tenor mtraltos and bassos that have appeared from tims to time above the musical horizon sound well nigh fabu- lous, fays Chumbers' Journal, and are not a hittle interesting to consider. To 20 back to the carly days of the last century, and to tho early days of the opera in this country, Mrs. atherine Tofts,ts fivst lady interprote in England, claimed high salar at the theater in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. She drew considerably over #3,000 for a sea- son, and at one time she was singing for #100 a night—high terms in 1708, At the same theater, twenty-six years later, the great singer, Farinelli, during the three years he spent in London, though his salary was but $7, season, earned at least $25,000 year for at but one of his numerous appes ances at court the prince of Wales gave him *a fine wrought gold snuff box, richly set with diamonds and rubies, in which was inclosed o pair of diamond knee buckles, as also a purse of 100 guineas.” Later in lifo he accepted an engagement at the court of in at a salary of 50,000 fran per annum. Two years after Farinelli had left London the other great singer of the time, Caffavelli, appeared at the King's theater, but did not fulfill the ex- pectations he had raised, though at Venice he received 31,940 and a benefit of $1,675 for a season of three months— igher terms than had previously been 1 to any singer. In 1768, Gabrielli, one of the most beautiful of women and magnificent of sopranos, demanded 5,000 ducats sulary from Catherine I1. of Russia. The em- s objected that it was larger than > pay of a field marsbhal. *“Then let your field marshals sing for you,” re- torted Gabrielli, us Caffarelli had re- plied before under like circumstances. That phenomenal soprano, Agujari, was in 1775 paid 500 a night for two songs at the London Pantheon concerts —an immense salury in those days. About thirty years later Catalani was receiving some $15,000 for the season in Portugal, and in 1506 she came to Lon- don for a promise of $10,000 for the son from September 15 to August, 18 with a further sum of $500 to defray the cost of her journey to London, and one benefit night frée of expense. As a fact, however, she drew from the King's theater in the Haymarket $25,000, in- cluding benefits, and her total profits in 1807, with concerts add provincial tours, were $83,500. Shid ouce received $1,000 for singing “God Save the King” and “Rule Britannia,” and for her services at one festival !)1[;‘3\'1.\5 paid 810,000, Her charities, howevér, were innumer- able, and it is estimated that she earned at least $400,000-at concerts for such purposes alone. Asan instance of her reckless extravagance it is statea that the costof beer for her servants fora single year amounted to $315. Malibran was engaged by Mr. Alfred Bunn for nineteen nights at $ per night, payable in advance. Singing at Drury Lane in Lnglish opera in 1333, she received 80,000 francs ($16,000) for forty representations, with two benefits, which produced not less than 50,000 francs ($10,000). Two years later, at the opera in London, she drew $10,875 fer twenty-four appearances. Such sums were paid to her at the English provin- cial festivals as had never before been heard of, and at La Scala she received nearly $00,000 for 185 performan In 1838 Mario was offered month for his first appearance, this was, of course, lar esult of his romantic history. salary at Covent Garden in 1847 was raised from $2,500 to $10,000 the day after her firstappearance,singing asshe was agains Jenny Lind at the opposition house. Sontag was paid 330,000 for a season of six months at Her Majesty’s theater in 1849, Rubini, who began his career at 13 years of age by singing, for 5 francs, an air in a new drama by Lambeti, made immense sums later in life, realizing $10,000 at one concert in St. Petersburg. Unlike Mario and Mara, who both died in comparative poverty, Rubini saved Jarge sums and left behind him one of the largest fortunes ever amassed on the operatic stage. Jenny Lind was naturally paid enor- mous sums in the course of her trium- phant career. During a tour of two years through the states, commenced in 1850, she made $100,000, gaining a hus- band as well! These pecuniary conditions are ade- quately preserved by at least two present day singers, to whom a hundred or two for a concert is an ordinary sum -Mme. Patti and Mme. Albani. It is current knowledge that the usual terms of the former are #4,000 per concert in London and $2,000 in the provinces. Mme. Patti lately refused an offer of a tour in Brazil atthe remuneration of #6,000 a night. Fairly ome salaries are paid also to leading artists d the Vienna opera, Herr Winkelmann, a tenor who appeared in London in German opera some years ago, is paid 20,000 forins ($8,125) for a season of nine months, M. van Dyke gets about 24,000 flovins, but he sings only seven monthsof the yearin Austria. Frau Materna, who is soon to retire, to be replaced by krau Klafsky, gets the same amount forthe whole™ year, and Fran Schluger, she : dramatic” soprano, veceives 20,000 florins per annum. The tenors thus get more than the sopranos. Before leavingahesubject of singers’ salavies, it were ourious to mention the renumeration recoived some yeavs ago by Mlle. Zelieof tho'heater Lyrique, at Paris, while singingiin a concert in the Society Islands, i the course of a tour around the world: “8he was to sing an air from “"Norma”und a few other songs, and bargained for a third of the receipts. She found that her share consisted of three pigs, twenty-three turkeys, forty- four chickens,.5,000 cocoanats and a con- siderable quantivy of bananas, lemons and oranges. though Lmibe e Those Were ¢ Days, “When Las Vegas, N. M., was a_red- hot town, in the years from 1870 to said the ex-southwestern journal- a New York Sun reporter, it re- quired careful wording of paragraphs, based on a poker judgment of human na- wure, to avoid misapprehension on the part of persons mentioned, with the best intentions, in our columns. 1 remember that in the Las Vegas Optic the city editor, a crack one, once wrote a careful criticism of a drama presented by local talent, in aid, I thiok, of a fire engine company. Ed Johnson of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe div ent's office—he was murdered last sum- mer in Kansas, poor fellow—had taken one of the leading parts with marked success, But when in a complimentary notice of the play the Optic referred to him as the ‘heavy villain,’ he took um- brage at the term and thrashed the city editor. Ah! those were great days, and our territorial newspapers pitched in for all they were worth, but an editor who cared for longevity and quiet had to pondor over his praise. As foreriticism, even the most discriminating comment was dynamite.” fon superintend- . —— THE BOY OF THE STREETS As n Nowapaper Fiond 1o Makes it Rough for the O1d Peddlers. The boy of the streets has an abound- ing sense of the heroic, says the Chicago Record, He is full of a sentiment which he has learned while leaning over the top gallery vail of a theater. It is crudo and boisterous sentiment, but it is good in part. for it has taught the boy to peel his coat in defenso of the weak. The trembling white-haired old fellow who has been compelled to take up at 70 the employment intended for boys of 7 will not be received with any revevent con- sideration along tho alle I'he boys will call him “Grandpaj Whiskers,” “Santa Claus” or something else just as disrespectful, but they will never push him out of line when he is waiting for his armload, They will “stake” if he “goes brok and if he is hungry they will “'di It is hardly necessary to say thore isa certain pathos in secing two comrades come out from the roaring and serumbling alley with their papers under their arms: one is bent and wrinkled; he couldn't make his voice heard ten feet through the frightful din of shrieking youngsters and rumbling presses. The “other is about the size of a spurrow, with shoes too large for him and legs somewhat larger than lead pencils. The youngster is away like a flash for a corner where he is known. The old man putters behind him. 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